The Speed of Adjustment to the Target Market Value Leverage Is Slower Than You Think

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 1946-1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qie Ellie Yin ◽  
Jay R. Ritter

In the capital structure literature, speed of adjustment (SOA) estimates are similar whether book or market leverage is used. This robustness is suspect, given the survey evidence that firms target their book leverage and the empirical evidence that they don’t issue securities to offset market leverage changes caused by stock price changes. We show that existing market SOA estimates are substantially upward biased due to the passive influence of stock price fluctuations. Controlling for this bias, the SOA estimate is 16% for book leverage and 10% for market leverage, implying that the trade-off theory is less important than previously thought.

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexis Kythreotis ◽  
Bagher Asgarnezhad Nouri ◽  
Milad Soltani

This study investigated different companies’ capital structures using a comparative approach in a developing country (Iran) and a developed country (Australia). The purpose of this study was to identify the factors affecting the capital structure based on the company's characteristics in Iran and Australia. The main characteristics of the companies used in this research are mainly based on the variables used in Pecking order theory and the Trade-off theory namely tangibility, firm size, profitability, and business risk. Three other variables including liquidity, asset utilization ratio and speed of adjustment were also investigated. Two indicators of total debt ratio and long-term debt ratio have been used as corporate leverage index. The population of this study included 178 Iranian companies listed on Iran's stock exchange and 187 Australian companies listed on Australia’s stock exchange from 2009 to 2015. To test the hypotheses, Panel data and Eviews software were used. To ensure robustness of the results, the speed of adjustment was estimated using GMM and OLS (with fixed and random effects).The results of this study showed that dynamic trade-off theory could better explain the changes in capital structure in Iran and Australia. The results also revealed significant differences in factors affecting the capital structure in Iran and Australia.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Marcelo Rabelo Henrique ◽  
Sandro Braz Silva ◽  
Antônio Saporito ◽  
Sérgio Roberto da Silva

The present investigation refers to the determinants of the capital structure, using the technique of multiple regression through Panel Data of open capital companies in the stock exchanges of Argentina, Brazil and Chile, in order to know the behavior of determinants of the capital structure in relation to Trade-Off Theory (TOT) and Pecking Order Theory (POT). The POT offers the existence of a hierarchy in the use of sources of resources, while the TOT considers the existence of a target capital structure that would be pursued by the company. Sixteen accounting variables were used, in which five are dependent (related to indebtedness) and eleven are independent variables (explaining the determinants of the capital structure). It is observed that, with the use of the Panel Data, the determinants that seem to influence in a more accentuated way the levels of debt of the companies are: current liquidity, tangibility, return to shareholders, return of assets, sales growth, asset growth, market-to-book and business risk measured by the volatility of benefits. Suggestions for future research include the use of Panel Data to analyze other factors that may influence indebtedness, mainly taxes and dividends, as well as a deeper analysis of factors that may influence the speed of adjustment towards the supposed objective level.


2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Henrique Machado ◽  
Carlos Roberto de Godoy

As decisões de financiamento têm sido amplamente discutidas em debates acadêmicos sobre finanças corporativas. Como o setor petrolífero é crucial ao desenvolvimento econômico mundial, por representar a principal fonte primária de energia, percebe-se a necessidade de pesquisa sobre este grupo de decisões direcionadas ao setor em questão. Neste contexto, o objetivo do trabalho foi estudar os fatores indutores nas decisões de estrutura de capital nas companhias integradas do setor petrolífero mundial. Foram pesquisadas 18 empresas listadas na New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), considerando o período de 2005 a 2010. As variáveis estudadas foram liquidez, rentabilidade, tangibilidade, risco, tamanho, crescimento, exaustão e reposição de reservas (independentes) e dívida de curto prazo, longo prazo e total (dependente). Para a análise do comportamento das variáveis, efetuou-se o teste de regressão. Verificou-se que os principais atributos que influenciaram as decisões de financiamento no setor foram: liquidez, rentabilidade, risco e tamanho. Ademais, observou-se também que as variáveis específicas do setor, exaustão e reposição, apresentaram forte influência na estrutura de capital. Foram demonstradas evidencias de que tanto a teoria pecking-order quanto a trade-off explicam as decisões de financiamento no setor.


2011 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 1150004
Author(s):  
TAK YAN LAW ◽  
TERENCE TAI-LEUNG CHONG

This paper examines the impacts of profitability, stock price performance and growth opportunity on the capital structure of firms in Thailand. The methodology of Kayhan and Titman (2007) is applied to model the dynamics of debt ratios. The results suggest that the leverage ratios of Thai firms do adjust towards their target levels. The deviations from the target due to the pecking-order and market timing effects are found to be significant. In contrast to Kayhan and Titman (2007), our results show that the market timing behavior does not persist.


2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luís Pacheco ◽  
Fernando Tavares

The main objective of this article is to study the capital structure determinants of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the hospitality sector and how this can influence their level of indebtedness. Using panel data methodology and considering a sample of 43 Portuguese hotels, the authors study the capital structure determinants between 2004 and 2013. The study examines the indebtedness level in light of the two main theories – the Trade-off theory and the Pecking Order theory. The hospitality sector was chosen because of its importance in the Portuguese economy and because this particular sector has hardly been studied. In addition to total indebtedness, the authors extend the literature by analysing the differences between short-term and long-term indebtedness. The results obtained suggest that profitability, assets tangibility, firm dimension, total liquidity and risk are key factors affecting the capital structure of hospitality sector SMEs, while growth, other tax benefits and age were not deemed relevant. These results allow us to conclude that Trade-off and Pecking Order theories should not be considered in isolation to explain the capital structure of hospitality sector SMEs.


Author(s):  
O.M. Varchenko ◽  
I. Artіmonova ◽  
N. Kholodenko

The article is devoted to the study of methodological and practical approaches to optimizing the capital structure as a tool for managing the value of dairy enterprises. It is established that the most common and suitable for research in the context of optimizing the capital structure are two theories: compromise and the theory of the hierarchy of funding sources. It is argued that compromise models are not designed to accurately determine the optimal capital structure of the enterprise, but allow that the owners from the standpoint of risk is most advantageous to rank sources of funding as follows: retained earnings; debt sources; equity instruments, shares. It is proved that only in the complex use of approaches of foreign theories of capital structure optimization and developments of domestic scientists taking into account the environment of business entities it is possible to develop effective tools for maximizing the market value of the enterprise, minimizing the average market value of capital and risk of financial stability. The calculation of the integrated indicator of financial stability is offered, which allows to determine the level of the financial stability reserve, which allows to take into account the industry specifics and to carry out current monitoring of financial stability at the enterprise. It is substantiated that one of the methods of quantitative assessment of capital structure and substantiation of its optimal structure is the method of capital expenditures. It is argued that the estimated weighted average cost of capital varies in a fairly narrow range, is one of the key factors in the value of business, and achieving a minimum level of such a barrier rate increases the company's ability to make effective investments. It is established that determining the optimal financial structure of capital is one of the most difficult problems of financial management of dairy enterprises. It was found that the management of the formation and use of capital of dairy enterprises is focused on meeting the needs of sources of financing of their economic activities, and to achieve a balanced structure of sources of financing of capital by economic entities is possible only on the basis of optimization criteria. It is proved that the calculation of the weighted average cost of capital based on the capital assets model (CAPM) should be used provided reliable information on intra-industry indicators, in a developed stock market and the turnover of shares in the securities market. Key words: capital structure. cost of capital, cost management, dairy enterprises.


2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Farah Tri Megawati ◽  
Nana Umdiana ◽  
Lulu Nailufaroh

This study purposed to examine the effect of Corporate tax rate and Non debt tax shield on their Capital Structure according to Trade Off Theory on manufacturing companiessubsector metal and allied product that listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange for period 2016-2019. The study was conducted uing quantitative methods with an associative approach.  The study population numbered 16 companies and 6 companies were sampled using purposive sampling.  The study was conducted at manufacturing companies subsector metal and allied product that listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange for period 2016-2019.  Classic assumption test using the test for normality, multicollinearity, autocorrelation, and heteroscedasticity.  The regression analysis used is multiple linear regression analysis.  Data was collected with the Financial Statement 2016-2019 and analyzed with IBM SPSS version 25. The results of this study indicate that the use of high debt to obtain a low corporate tax rate can cause a high risk for the company to go bankrupt, so the company prefers to use depreciation costs to obtain tax savings.  If the depreciation cost of the company is high, the company can also reduce the use of debt.  This shows that the higher the capital structure, the lower the corporate tax rate obtained by the company and the higher the NDTS, the lower the capital structure.  In this study, there are still many limitations and shortcomings namely the influence of the independent variable on the dependent variable can only explain by 63,2%.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 348-366
Author(s):  
Yulita Setiawanta ◽  
Dwiarso Utomo ◽  
Imam Ghozali ◽  
Jumanto Jumanto

Transactions between countries require a stable exchange rate. When the exchange rate of the country experiences uncertainty, then this will influence the company’s financial performance and even affect the company’s market value. This study aims to look for the direct influence of the company’s financial performance as an independent variable and the firm value as a dependent variable within the investor perspective, also including the exchange rate factor as a moderating variable. Investors could probably learn about information on the ups-and-downs of the Indonesian rupiah against foreign currencies before their investment decisions, even though financial performance substantially influences the company’s market value. The sample in this study was 50 companies within four years of observation. Data processing was carried out by the Eviews statistical application. The results showed that the financial performance, which is proxied by the capital structure, affects firm value, but not profitability. The impact of exchange rate moderation also occurs in the relationship of capital structure and firm value, while the moderation effect on profitability and firm value is not proven. This study provides information that exchange rates influence investment interests upon investors’ analysis of the financial performance of the capital structure, but not profitability.


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